Chapter 336 The dog planner is here to reap the profits again!
"...We met the people from Shelter 404."
In the middle of a pure white room, Horn's face was full of piety.
"Oh?"
As if floating from the dark, a gentle voice sounded in his ears.
"What kind of people are they?"
Horn answered respectfully.
"They are a group of...very special people. My experience cannot help me make a more specific judgment. They have made an invitation, and I want to send a few people to take a look at them."
"This is a good idea. You need to keep communicating with other survivors. Have you decided on the candidates?"
There was a hint of approval in the voice.
The old face couldn't help showing a trace of joy, and Horn continued respectfully.
"Not yet, but we plan to select a student and two engineers to go."
The voice that came from the dark seemed to be lost in thought.
After about two or three minutes, it continued.
"Let Pai go."
Horn was a little surprised by the mentor's words, but didn't say anything.
"I am willing to listen to your teachings."
The old man said respectfully, paused for a moment, and continued to speak out his thoughts.
"The capital of the New Alliance is more than 100 kilometers away from us. For safety reasons, I want to apply for a bodyguard."
"Approved, open at 6 o'clock tomorrow." The voice in the dark replied very readily.
Horn nodded slightly.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome, go and prepare well," the voice continued, "I also have to choose a suitable gift for our neighbors."
The communication ended.
After the voice left, Horn slowly raised his hands, fumbled around his temples with his index finger for a while, and took off the VR glasses on his head.
The pure white light faded from the surroundings.
At this moment, he was standing in the management center of the camp.
The door of the shelter would not be opened easily.
Generally, when there were important things to discuss, he would sit in the office like this and communicate with the manager using VR equipment.
After a moment of silence, Horn reached out and pressed the touch screen on the desktop.
Looking at the communication connection icon, he slowly spoke.
"Let Ivan come to the management center."
"I have something important to discuss with him."
...
"Wasteland OL" official website.
The settlement of the "Blades Out" expansion pack is in full swing.
This battle lasted for two months, and almost all players have gained a lot, accumulating a large wave of points and waiting to spend them.
Before the settlement began, many people on the official website have posted screenshots to show off their points balance.
Ice and Fire: "Fuck, 100,000 points?!"
I'll fight you: "Open something, right?!"
Luo Yu: "Are you envious? I exchanged my life for it. (Proud)"
100,000 points is not the most exaggerated, a fat rat even scored 120,000 points.
The most eye-catching one is probably the Burning Legion, with an average score of nearly 80,000.
Even the third-tier corps, such as the Silver Corps, which have little presence, have an average score of more than 30,000.
It can only be said that the Corps system is worthy of being the father of the version. If individual players want to get high scores, they can only find another way like "forcing others to do things that are difficult".
But in the Corps system, basically as long as there is a big brother in the group, the rest of the people will not be too lazy and will not be kicked out of the group for not listening to the command, and the benefits will basically not be bad.
Although points cannot be exchanged for silver coins, tasks with points will generally reward silver coins or contributions.
It can be seen how much "war money" they have made!
Stop bullshitting: "Maybe the average score can reach 20,000 this time."
WC really has mosquitoes: "Be more confident, I think at least 40,000. (Proud)"
Canyon Runaway Mole: "Suddenly a little panicked..."
Makabazi: "Why panic? Isn't it good to have more points?"
Canyon Runaway Mole: "No... You can't just look at the surface of the problem. More points means more people will participate in the lottery. According to the design of this game's lottery system, it is not the explosion rate that is fixed but the prizes in the reward pool..."
Stop bullshitting: "Stop, stop, stop, can you speak human language?"
Canyon Runaway Mole: "To speak human language, the reward pool may be diluted."
Construction site boy and brick: "What the hell?!"
Debt big eyes: "It's not that bad, right?!"
Fang Chang: "You look surprised, as if it's your first day playing this game. (Squinting smile)"
Just when the players were talking about it, A Guang's ID suddenly appeared on the forum.
Seeing the ID of the dog planner, not only the players perked up, but also the cloud players, spies from various countries and companies, and the silly netizens all sat up straight.
"Hello everyone, I am your most beloved planner A Guang. First of all, please allow me to represent all the developers and wish you all a happy Children's Day!"
"In order to celebrate the festival and to make our programmers less anxious, our siege lions designed an automatic banana feeding machine... But unfortunately, the company's No. 5 batteries are out of stock, There is no supermarket here, so we can only solve the problem ourselves. "
"Fortunately, our siege lions are reliable enough. They not only successfully made batteries, but also solved some interesting problems. Hint: It is a layer of membrane. Everyone unanimously decided that it would be a pity not to use it to make some money to buy snacks, so we decided to sell it to the highest bidder! "
"Just like that, the auction will start in three days, and the starting price is 1 million silver coins! "
"Let's get back to the topic. With the arrival of June, the closed beta of "Wasteland OL" is about to enter the hot summer. Rainfall will be more frequent, urban areas and forests will be more dangerous, and reptiles and arthropods will usher in a strong period... There should be no players who have explored the southern hemisphere, so this sentence is correct. "
"In addition, thank you all for your continued support. The expansion pack has been successfully completed and we have obtained valuable experimental data! Thanks to this data, we have taken another big step towards the public beta!"
"The boss said we won a lot. I believe it's not just us, but you all too! Are you excited to see that string of zeros in your account? Are you very happy? Haha, I'm as happy as you are!"
"In order to give back to everyone's continued support, we have prepared generous prizes! From now on, the points lottery and achievement redemption activities are officially open!"
"Let's celebrate this victory!"
At the same time as the post was published, the official website unlocked the lottery system, and the forum was instantly a carnival.
100 points for one draw, 10,000 points means 100 consecutive draws!
Although this game is very stingy and does not have a setting of 20 draws for 100 consecutive draws, everyone has accumulated an average of 40,000 points, and it's cool enough to draw once!
While the players were busy scratching the lottery and the cloud players were happily eating melons, the intelligence systems of various countries were also busy. Some were peeking at the screen, some were holding meetings, and they were in a state of panic.
A Guang, who had not posted a post for more than two months, re-entered their field of vision.
For them who had been busy for several months but still had no progress, there was nothing more exciting than this!
"No. 5 batteries are out of stock... An organization with mature quantum computer technology would be out of stock of No. 5 batteries?"
"This is nonsense!"
"There should be some hidden clues in it... What is that A Guang hinting at us?"
"Lock all areas without supermarkets within a radius of 5 kilometers!"
"Is it global? That's too many..."
Somewhere.
Listening to the discussions of his colleagues, the square-faced man sighed and closed the notebook in his hand.
"Is there a possibility... This person is talking nonsense?"
Everyone in the conference room was stunned.
The man in police uniform was the first to come to his senses, tapping his index finger on the table.
"Don't rule out this possibility!"
Without sufficient evidence, any possibility exists.
All signs indicate that the man whose existence was erased did not seem to realize that he was abducted by an extraterrestrial civilization, or he realized it but did not care, and had completely accepted the new job.
At this time, the old man sitting at the table suddenly spoke.
"What do you think that membrane is?"
The square-faced man was slightly stunned.
"Membrane...?"
The old man nodded.
"Didn't they say they solved some interesting problems?"
As he said that, he looked at the other people in the room and continued to ask.
"Do we have any battery experts here?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
The man in the green shirt frowned and said.
"Batteries... Our unit's batteries are purchased from cooperative units, and I don't know much about this part."
Just then, the consultant from the chemical industry suddenly spoke.
"Could he be talking about the SEl membrane?"
The square-faced man asked immediately.
"What is that?"
The consultant said.
"It's not a rare thing... Simply put, it's a solid electrolyte interface, which is equivalent to a passivation layer covering the surface of the electrode material, with a thickness of about 100 nanometers. Taking lithium batteries as an example, a good SEI film can prevent solvent molecules from being co-embedded, allowing lithium ions to pass through and embed smoothly, thereby inhibiting the formation of lithium dendrites."
The old man sitting next to the conference table said with a blank face.
"Lithium... what?"
He didn't hear it clearly.
As if he expected this reaction, the consultant sighed and continued.
"In short, it is a technical difficulty faced by lithium batteries. The tree-like metal lithium formed when lithium ions are reduced will continuously consume electrolyte during the charging and discharging process, and cause irreversible deposition of metal lithium, thereby forming 'dead lithium', reducing coulomb efficiency... and may even cause safety hazards when positive and negative electrodes are connected."
Moli went bankrupt in the 1980s because of this, and was finally acquired by the then electrical giant NEC. However, it has not yet overcome the technical difficulties of metal lithium negative electrode batteries.
At present, the mainstream method in the industry is to use carbon-based materials as electrodes, sacrificing battery capacity to ensure safety.
Although the energy density of lithium negative electrode materials is attractive, no one wants to carry a bomb on their body or sit on a rocket under their buttocks.
The old man was still thinking, and the square-faced man probably understood and nodded thoughtfully.
"I roughly understand what you mean... If the problem of that membrane is solved, the energy density of the battery can be improved?"
A bitter smile appeared on the consultant's face.
"Just understand it like this... But I still have to emphasize that lithium dendrites are only a technical difficulty in studying lithium battery problems, and artificial SEI membranes are only one of the solutions proposed by the academic community for the problem of lithium dendrites."
"As for whether it is useful or not, how to use it... These are all controversial. The current mainstream research directions are building houses and building walls. Maybe both are right, maybe neither is right."
A colleague sitting next to him asked curiously, "What do you mean by neither is right?"
The consultant answered concisely.
"It means that not all questions can be answered."
The old man suddenly spoke.
"This membrane... can it increase the battery energy density to what extent?"
The consultant took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued.
"... It depends on what battery it is compared with. According to the white paper we released on the development plan of power batteries, the goal for 2025 is to reach 400Wh/kg, and the goal for 2030 is 500Wh/kg. I don't know much about batteries, but this data should be based on the opinions of academic and industrial experts."
"If the graphite negative electrode of the lithium battery can be replaced with pure lithium, the energy density should be an order of magnitude higher in theory."
"An order of magnitude?!" The man in the police uniform showed a surprised expression on his face.
Not only him, but everyone in the conference room showed surprised expressions on their faces.
Just hearing the numbers doesn't make much sense.
But once there is a reference for comparison, they immediately understand the value of this technology.
The consultant continued.
"It's about one or two thousand, which is an order of magnitude higher. As for the specific amount... it's more reliable for you to ask an expert in the industry."
The man in the green shirt suddenly stood up.
"I'll call my unit."
The old man sitting at the conference table nodded and said seriously.
"Go."
At the same time, a similar scene was also being played out around the world in the real world.
This "Developer's Log" of less than a thousand words has been repeatedly studied by intelligence agencies of major organizations for no less than 1,000 times, and even punctuation marks are not spared.
In the end, most intelligence agencies came to the same guess-this may be an enlightenment signal released by extraterrestrial civilization.
As we all know, one of the three pillars of modern technology is energy.
If this mysterious website really has technology far beyond the current era, it will undoubtedly provide favorable evidence for the conjecture of "third kind of contact".
After all, any technology cannot be separated from the support of the scientific research system and cannot emerge out of thin air.
While the players were busy scratching the lottery, the silver coin consignment platform had quietly become lively.
Although I don't know what the official website of "Wasteland OL" plans to auction in three days, it's always right to prepare in advance.
"Foreign exchange" is something that can't be used until it is needed.
The daily trading volume on the platform is so much. This is not a question of whether it is a buyer's market or a seller's market, but there are simply not so many silver coins in the pool to buy.
Players need silver coins to update equipment, eat, sleep and even take a bath.
Yes.
According to the information they collected by peeping on the official website, even taking a bath in this broken game costs money.
"Shit... Do these lucky guys know what they are doing?"
Staring at the string of numbers on the computer screen, Fick, with his arms folded, couldn't help but curse with envy.
Just half an hour ago, their project team received a batch of funds.
Although the money is not in their pockets, it is still okay to improve their working environment and life "within a reasonable range".
Part of this money comes from grants from official agencies.
But more of it comes from giants that agree with the official agencies.
After all, the government itself does not produce anything, and it is useless to get the technology. In the end, it still has to be handed over to enterprises or individuals, allowing them to register patents, expand production, form monopolies, and grab other people's cakes.
This is also the rule of the game in the real world.
"It's better for them to never know!"
"Indeed, the truth is something that the fewer people know, the better... Otherwise, where can we get such cheap silver coins?" The intelligence officer standing aside laughed and teased.
The colleague next to him clenched his fists and stared at the computer screen to cheer him up.
"Buy it quickly! Damn, why can't the trading volume go up? Don't you sell a silver coin at $8?!"
The trader sitting in front of the computer looked solemn and analyzed.
"I'm afraid it's not a price issue... The proportion of players holding US dollar and cryptocurrency accounts is too small! There is a certain threshold for foreign exchange trading. Many people may be afraid of trouble and simply filter out uncommon currencies."
"Not only that, some dense small orders are obviously not like player behavior... more like speculators who are not directly involved in the game."
"In other words, we didn't get those large orders of more than 1,000 silver coins at all!"
The silver coin trading platform is not only open to players. Cloud players can not only trade, but also indirectly participate in the investment in the game through the agreement holding method.
When the silver coin trading platform first came out, many people hoarded a lot of silver coins.
Now suddenly someone bought a lot of silver coins, and these retail investors who didn't understand the situation immediately cashed out and left.
Thanks to the cheap chips contributed by these people.
The real auction will be three days later. The later it is, the more intense the competition will be. The price of silver coins may be even more exaggerated...
The intelligence officer standing next to him said solemnly.
"We still have to find a way to get a RMB account with a clean source of funds!"
Damn, why is it so troublesome? !
Fike couldn't help but kick the table.
"Fuck!"
...
There is one thing that Fike's colleagues did guess right.
Currently, most of the accounts sold on the silver coin trading platform are indeed cloud players.
As for why the players did not participate, it was not entirely because of the account problem.
In the final analysis, everyone was busy scratching the lottery and didn't pay attention to that piece at all.
Many big scorers directly drew 10 100 consecutive draws, and the computer screen was full of golden light.
Each prize has a corresponding card.
Even if you skip the lottery animation, it will take a lot of time to look through each prize.
Not to mention taking screenshots of the big prizes to show off on the forum, or scolding the dog planner in the small group for the garbage.
Closed beta player communication section.
Many people have taken screenshots and posted them, sharing the joy of winning with everyone.
"Wait, what is the arms gift pack? Who got one?"
"The introduction says that it is weapons and supplies of varying amounts, which can be used for trading with other NPC forces, or sold to newbies or used by yourself... This is actually the spoils of war, right?"
"I understand the reason, but why do I have to draw again after drawing once?"
"I also drew... a bunch of slasher rifles?"
"What kind of Russian nesting dolls are these!"
"Hahaha, I got ten!"
"Awesome!!"
The slasher rifle is the standard weapon of the legion cannon fodder, characterized by a long and hard barrel, and a total length of nearly two meters with a bayonet.
This thing has another name on the forum, called salted fish stab.
This equipment has basically no other advantages except saving bullets and not jamming.
In a real bayonet fight in the trenches, the LD-47, a relatively compact assault rifle, is more handy, and long weapons may not be easy to use.
However, due to the large number of bullets, the bullets of the Eviscerator rifle are much easier to find than the "Black Swan" of the enterprise, so this weapon is very popular in many survivor settlements.
After all, not all survivor settlements can equip automatic rifles on a large scale.
Although these arms cannot be sold at a high price in the New Alliance, if they are dragged to a distant survivor settlement to sell, and then the local specialties are dragged back to the New Alliance, it should be possible to make a lot of money.
In general, this "arms gift package" is much better than the consolation prize.
Of course, the new tricks made by the dog planner are just an appetizer, and the players are really concerned about the first prize in the reward pool.
Although not everyone has the opportunity to become a European emperor, it is good to be able to absorb the European energy.
It's a closed beta.
It's mainly for testing, so it's normal to have less equipment.
When the public beta is launched, everyone will be able to play it sooner or later!
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the first European winner of this expansion pack lottery was finally born.
Commander of Fountain: "Fuck! Destroyer I exoskeleton! There is a 120mm mortar on the back...Fuck?! This equipment is awesome!"
Perhaps he was overwhelmed by excitement, and Brother Fountain forgot to be low-key this time.
Not only did he show off, he also posted screenshots and his acceptance speech, sharing the joy of becoming the European winner with everyone.
However...
No one was happy.
The post exploded instantly.
Edge paddling: "Fuck! Why is it you again!"
Canyon escape mole: "Fuck the European winner! Go to hell!"
Quit smoking: "Dirty! It must be a shady deal!"
Commander of Fountain: "What a shady deal! I got 120,000 points, why can't I win! 1200 consecutive draws, brother!"
However, this statement obviously cannot convince the public.
Salted fish don't care so much.
Silver Father: "I'm sick of it. This old Gou coin can get 120,000 points, why is it only 30,000?"
Garbage Picker Level 99: "Woo, woo, woo, it's so unfair. I beg the planner to cut it down!"
Lao Wang next door: "Support! Support with both hands!"
The Fountain Commander panicked and deleted the post quickly, but it was too late.
Screenshots of the equipment were uploaded everywhere on the official website.
According to the information shown in the screenshots, the Destroyer I exoskeleton is a circle larger than the Type 6 "Heavy Cavalry" exoskeleton, almost catching up with the power armor.
Unlike the Type 6 exoskeleton, the armor of the Destroyer I does not focus on the protection against light weapons, but more on the protection against explosion fragments and shock waves.
Specifically, the inner side of the armor of the exoskeleton is filled with a thick layer of buffer material, so it looks quite bloated.
When deploying the 120mm mortar behind, you need to support the ground with both hands like a running start, and you cannot move.
Since it is equipped with an automatic loading system, in theory, as long as there are enough shells, only one unit needs to be deployed to project a large amount of firepower to the target area in a short time.
It is equivalent to an "all-terrain" self-propelled mortar that can be driven into a small alley.
It can be called a street fighting artifact!
However, because the equipment is too bulky, the chemical energy battery is bloated, and the ammunition rack is external, it is not suitable for the front battlefield.
It is no exaggeration to say that this thing is full of flaws, and it would be quite embarrassing to be hit by someone.
Players of the Storm Corps have said that if this old Gou Coin gets this kind of Gou Coin equipment, he will have to go to the sky.
But there is one thing to say.
It is also very good to be able to have a round of close-range fire support before the attack.
There are more than one new equipment in the reward pool.
This time, the game official has prepared a total of ten first prizes, and half of them have never appeared before.
As for the exoskeleton carrying a mortar, it can't be considered the most awesome.
After all, this kind of equipment is only useful in certain situations, and ammunition is also a problem.
If we really talk about comprehensive combat effectiveness, it may not be better than the "Type 5" light cavalry.
"Plasma knife! Awesome! I'm going to change my job to a force warrior!"
"Magnetic slingshot... What's the use of this thing? Shooting birds?"
"Portable flying backpack... If you don't understand, just ask, are you going to let me fly up to the sky and be a target for people?"
"Hahaha, you can discuss it with the buddy upstairs, you be the bird."
"..."
The computer room of the school computer.
Browsing the posts on the official website forum, Ye Wei was envious.
Damn!
He also saved more than 100,000 points, why can't he draw SSSR!
It must be balanced by the dog planner!
But it doesn't matter.
People can't be too greedy.
His gains in the expansion pack are far more than those points. Even if it is really balanced, there is nothing to complain about.
The construction of the new map Dawn City has just started, and the orders of the Niuma Brick Factory have been scheduled until the end of the year. Now they are frantically expanding production.
Not only bricks, but also cement, are all within their business scope.
Although there have been many competitors in Dawn City recently, they are not comparable to their "sanctuary holding" companies in terms of scale.
Cutting out from the closed beta player section, Ye Wei browsed the gossip section for a while, wanting to see what the cloud players were talking about.
As a result, he laughed when he saw the first post.
"... Silver coins have increased in price?"
Are you kidding?
It's not that the price of silver has not increased, but it usually increases when the expansion pack or new gameplay is just launched. It is impossible to increase at the end of the expansion pack.
The expansion pack has just settled the remaining income. Now everyone's pockets are full of silver coins, and there is no need to change equipment for the time being. Even the rich will not spend money at this time.
It makes no sense at all!
Not to mention the previous battles, the expansion packs were spending money like crazy, and several big players were shipping every day to "improve their lives". The transaction price of silver coins fell to single digits a few days ago.
"Haha, I want to see how high it can go."
Out of curiosity, Ye Wei casually clicked on the silver coin trading platform and took a look.
It didn't matter if he saw it, he was stunned on the spot.
"What the hell?!"
8 US dollars per silver coin? !
He confirmed several times that the order on it was a buy order, not a sell order.
And there was more than one.
A full ten buy orders, each with 100,000 silver coins, were lined up with a difference of one dollar!
The top one has been traded 40%, and the buy orders of 7 US dollars and 6 US dollars have not started to be traded yet, after all, the buy orders with the highest listing price have not been eaten up.
Not only US dollars, but also RMB, euros, and other currencies are also on it.
The bids are more outrageous than one!
It seems that overnight, it has returned to the time when the silver coin trading platform was just launched.
"Are these people crazy?!"
Looking at the 52RMB pending order, Ye Wei felt his heartbeat speed up, and sweat oozed from the palm of his hand holding the mouse.
His first reaction was to smash the market now!
Sell now!
If you miss this opportunity, you will miss it forever!
However, this thought only stayed in his mind for half a minute, and he calmed down.
This is a bit strange!
The entire trading platform was completely blocked by buy orders, and not even a sell order could be seen.
Who is throwing money around?
Taking a deep breath, Ye Wei restrained the urge to sell, grabbed the mobile phone on the table, tapped the screen with his fingers at the speed of light, and sent a message to the brothers in the cattle and horse group.
"Quick!"
"Look at the silver coin trading platform!!!"